Illness Plagued Her Childhood
When you look at her today, you would think that Charlize Theron skated through life with her good looks and sense of class. But the first decade of her life anything but ideal. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Born August 7, 1975, her “early childhood was quite devastating,” the A-list actress revealed (to The Sun). “I had no teeth until I was 11.”
Charlize Theron, 1991. Photo By David Sandison/The Independent/Shutterstock
Well, she did have teeth, but they had to be removed on account of a long-term illness. That illness? Jaundice. “I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid, and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted,” she explained. According to Theron, they had to cut her teeth out. “So, I never had milk teeth.”